2024 - Marlène Jobert: this dramatic accident that almost ruined her life

This Sunday, February 27, 2022, C8 will broadcast the detective film Last known domicile, in which Marlène Jobert gives the reply to Lino Ventura. The opportunity to return to the car accident of which she was the victim at the age of 22 years.

Revealed in the play Thousands of clowns in 1963, Marlène Jobert chained the roles in the cinema. If the actress gave the reply to Kirk Douglas, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins, but also Pierre Richard, her career could have ended much earlier… At the age of 22, she was indeed the victim of a dramatic car accident in Île-Saint-Louis, in Paris, which threw her against the windshield. If Marlène Jobert survived, she was disfigured for a long time. In the columns of Paris-Pressethe actress then revealed:I thought I was going crazy. It was horrible. I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror anymore, I had a 12 cm scar. I thought I would never get out of this nightmare. Cosmetic surgery saved my life.“

In November 2014, in an interview given to Gala that Marlène Jobert had mentioned the accident which earned her a scar on her cheek. “Two months after our meeting, Claude (Berri’s editor’s note) crashed into a badly parked vehicle and that was the tragedy. I’m hit in the face. My right cheek is deeply cut. I had to undergo several operations, it was long and difficult. At the time, I hadn’t made a film yet. I told myself that in the theatre, with good make-up, it wouldn’t show. Claude no longer knew how to spoil me“, she had let know. If the couple quickly separated, the career of the actress took off despite everything. After coming across a picture of her, Jean-Luc Godard indeed gave him one of the main roles of the film Male Female.

Marlène Jobert initially refused to play with Lino Ventura

If C8 will broadcast this Sunday, February 27, 2022 the detective film Last known address, in which Marlène Jobert gives the reply to Lino Ventura, the actress almost did not play there. Six years earlier, it was in the columns of Our time which she revealed:After The Passenger in the Rain, which I shot with Charles Bronson, I naively thought that all the roles that would be offered to me would be as large. When director José Giovanni asked me to play the new assistant to an inspector played by Lino Ventura in Last Known Home, I initially refused. No one had explained to me that the scenario was beautiful, that the duet with Ventura would be marvelous… I ended up accepting all the same, but Lino was terribly upset that a little shitty girl like me refused to work with him!“

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Marlene Jobert
She gave the reply to Kirk Douglas, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins, but also Pierre Richard.

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Marlene Jobert
His career could have ended much sooner….

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Marlene Jobert
At the age of 22, she was indeed the victim of a dramatic car accident in Île-Saint-Louis, in Paris, which threw her against the windshield.

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Marlene Jobert
If Marlène Jobert survived, she was disfigured for a long time.

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Marlene Jobert
In the columns of Paris-Presse, the actress then revealed: “I thought I was going crazy. It was horrible. I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, I had a 12 cm scar.”

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Marlene Jobert
She assured that cosmetic surgery had saved her life.

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Marlene Jobert
This Sunday, February 27, 2022, C8 will broadcast the police film Last known domicile, in which Marlène Jobert gives the reply to Lino Ventura.

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Marlene Jobert
Claude Berri was driving at the time.

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Marlene Jobert
For Gala, she had revealed: “At the time, I had not yet made a film. I told myself that in the theater, with good makeup, it would not be seen.”